Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Pediatric kidney transplantation part 53




Immunosuppression medications

Many different immunosuppression medications are used to prevent rejection in children receiving kidney transplants. Your transplant doctors will review this medications and tell you which ones your child will be receiving. The informations that follows is general information about some common side effects for the most common immunosuppression medications being used to prevent rejection of the kidney transplant. Immunosuppression after transplant can be separated into induction, which is the initial very strong immunosuppression your child will initially receive after transplant, and maintenance, which is the immunosuppression medication that your child will receive for the rest of their life.

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